We can forgive [the Arabs] for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with [the …

- Golda Meir

The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.

- Golda Meir

There is no such thing as a Palestinian people... It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn't exist.

- Golda Meir

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner spark…

- Golda Meir

We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.

- Golda Meir

There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.

- Golda Meir

Those that perished in Hitler's gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.

- Golda Meir

If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we'd rather be alive and have the bad image.

- Golda Meir

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

- Golda Meir